Football



Feb. 22 1927.

A. KLEMTE' FOOTBALL Original Filed Dec. 21, 1925 Patented Feb. 22, 1927. 1 ,6 1

UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE. I

AUGUST KLEMTE, OF BREMEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO GEORG KUEPKER, OF WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY.

FOOTBALL.

Original application filed December 21, 1925, Serial No. 76,735, and in Germany November 11, 1924.

Divided and this application filed September 11, 1926. Serial No. 134,868.

This invention relates to an inflatable foot- In assembling the ball, the air bladder is 4o ball of the kind having a cover composed of enclosed between the cover sections wheretwo hemispherical sections which are conupon the loops Z, Z are interlaced cross-wise nected by means of interlaced lacing loops from staggered positions as shown in Fig. 2.

5 and recessed at the. joint so as to accommo- The loops whereby the lacing is commenced date the lacing and a ring whereby said lacand finished are connected to the air valve of '43 ing is covered. the bladder, as described in application Ser.

According to the present invention, the N0. 7 6735. Finally the ring 0 is applied to sections abut against each other, and lacthe ball so as to cover the lacing, whereupon 10 ing loops are connected to both sections so the ball is inflated. The inflation causes that they can be interlaced cross-wise from the ring to be tightened to the recess which so ta d p itions, holds it in position, and as the lacing is cov- This application is a. division of applicaered by the ring, the inflated ball will pretion Serial No. 76,785, filed December 21, sent acontinuous surface.

1925. I claim:

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings rep- 1. An inflatable football comprising a m resents a sectional View across the joint of cover divided into two lined, hemispherical the football cover, and sections which abut against each other and Fig. 2, an elevation of the joint showing which form at the joint a circumferential th lacing, recess, lacing loops connected to the sec- The cover of an inflatable football is t-ions at the corners of the recess so that they (in divided into two hemispherical, lined seccan be interlaced cross-wise from staggered tions a and a which are connected by lacpositions for connecting the two sections. ing and which are contracted at the adjoinand a ring adapted to fill said recess and ing edges so as to form, when the sections cover the lacing loops when the ball are united, a circumferential recess. The inflated. o.) lacing is situated in the recess and it is sub- 2. A football according to claim 1 wherein sequently covered by ring 0 which fills the the recessed portions of the sections are recess and lies flush with the ball surface. formed by means of strips connected to and According to the invention, the contractprojecting from under the main cover pored portion is formed by strips 6, e which tions. 70 are secured to and project from under the 3. A football according to claim 1 wheremain cover portion and which are doubled in the recessed portions of the sections are back upon the lining n, as shown in Fig. 1. formed by means of strips connected to and For lacing the two cover sections a and a projecting from under the main cover portogether, they are provided respectively with tions, said strips being doubled back upon lacing loops Z and 1. These loops are se the lining of the sections. cured at the edges m between the strips 0, e

and the main cover portions. AUGUST KLEMTE. 

